Trip to Tanzania by Réal Saindon.

By-laws modification

Recently, the Board of director modified the Association By-Laws so that the spouse of a member can be a member of the Association.

Before only a lineal descendant of Michel Saindon, a descendant by union* or by adoption could be a member of the Association.

This modification normalize the situation of some spouses who continued to pay the dues of their deceased spouse member desiring to maintain a link with the Association. Also a spouse member could become a member of the Board of directors.

Already in force, this modification will have to be approved at the next general assembly of the Association.

* Children of a female lineal descendant of Michel Saindon

The Saindon farm at St-Alexandre wins the Mcleod trophy.

Rivière-du-LoupThe Saindon and son farm of St-Alexandre, owner Clément Saindon, his wife Hélène Bélanger and their son Sébastien, have won the Mcleod trophy at the General Assembly of Québec Holstein Association for the very high performance of a cow of their herd which produced 19338 kg of milk.(From infodimanche.com site).

St-Alexandre de Kamouraska is around 150 miles north-east of Québec city a little before Rivière-du-Loup.

Visit of two American couples of USA to Cacouna

October 31st 2013

Brad Parker from Kansas and his wife, on their honeymoon, and also Linda Roy-Cross and her husband, celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary, also from Kansas, visited separetly the province of Québec recently and specifically Cacouna.André Saindon, a member of the Association, living in Cacouna acted as their guide.On the Association' Facebook site, these two persons who are unknown to each other, exchanged informations about their place of living in Kansas..

Many Saindons emigrated from Cacouna to Illinois and Kansas at the end of the 19th century : Brad is the great-great-grandson of Adéline Saindon and Linda, grand daughter of Laura Saindon.Linda, sister of late Sr Veronica Roy, author of "Our Saindon cousin" a very important book on the Mid-west Saindons has an Internet site on her trip and her ancestors at